Jackie Earle Haley’s TV series ‘Human Target’ a go for fall

Though San Antonio is his home, Jackie Earle Haley’s life these days has been travel, travel, travel.

The actor can look forward to more, more, more now that the Fox network has picked up live-action comic book series “Human Target,” which, like Haley’s “Watchmen,” will be shot in Vancouver.

“I just got the word yesterday,” Haley said by e-mail. “(I’m) super pumped, and excited. Should

be a really fun show.”

Presently, Haley is in Chicago filming the new version of “Nightmare on Elm Street.” As everyone must know by now, he’s been cast as Freddy Krueger, the iconic supernatural serial killer with the severely burned visage.

Next stop: New York on Monday, when Haley and, most likely, the rest of the principal “Target” cast  Mark Valley of “Boston Legal” and “Fringe” and Chi McBride (“Pushing Daisies”)  will be on hand when Fox formally announces the drama’s pickup at its upfront presentation to advertisers.

It already was widely reported Tuesday, however, by everyone from Variety to the L.A. Times to TV Guide, that Fox had indeed picked up “Human Target” for the fall.

As described by the Hollywood Reporter, the new superhero series is based on the DC comic and revolves around hero Christopher Chance, a brave and mysterious freelancer who steps in for people in danger, thus becoming a human target. Valley plays the lead, Haley his crucial information gatherer and McBride will be Chance’s colleague and friend.

Haley had a great time shooting the pilot:: “Shooting ‘Human Target’ was a blast. Simon West (‘Con Air,’ ‘Lara Croft: Tomb Raider’) is a fun director to work with, and the cast is great.”

There shouldn’t be a conflict for Haley between “Nightmare” and “Target” as the latter isn’t expected to begin filming until the former has wrapped.

What a year it’s shaping up to be for Haley! Earlier it brought whirlwind trips all over the world for promotion and premieres of “Watchmen.”

Then, he was off to Vancouver for the “Target” pilot, a couple of months later, he was due on the set for “Nightmare,” and soon he’ll be returning to Vancouver for several months of “Target” shooting.

We shouldn’t worry about losing our resident star, however. Haley told me during a “Watchmen” press trip a couple of months back that he wouldn’t think of moving from his Alamo City home base, where friends, family and his production company JEH Productions offer him a kind of respite from the Hollywood hub-bub.